Overclocking Ryzen 3700x didn't boost game performance or reduce 3ds Max rendering times.
Overclocking Ryzen 3700x didn't boost game performance or reduce 3ds Max rendering times.
Hi. I put together my desktop just now and am still getting the hang of overclocking. I boosted my Ryzen 7 3700X from 4.05Ghz (Auto OC) to 4.4Ghz using a voltage of 1.35V and a SOC voltage of 1.15V. Despite the good Cinebench scores, I haven’t noticed any gains in 3D rendering tasks such as 3ds Max or Houdini. Also, my FPS doesn’t seem to jump when playing games like Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Cyberpunk, or Horizon Zero Dawn. I ran an AIDA64 test for half an hour and a Prime95 benchmark with one thread for fifteen minutes. Temperatures stayed around 80-85°C. Surprised that at 4.4Ghz it didn’t show any instability. I’m not sure I did the overclock right. My specs are: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-Plus, AMD RYZEN 7 3700X, ASUS TUF GTX 1660 SUPER OC, 6GB GPU from G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (32GB), 3600MHz RAM, 16-19-19-39 storage via WD BLACK SN750 NVMe 500GB. Also, I have a Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU cooler from CORSAIR VS650. My BIOS OC settings are...
It's common to rely heavily on the GPU in gaming, and it's possible the CPU isn't contributing much extra processing power.
Hello. The games rely heavily on GPU performance. However, the 3D modeling programs depend on the processor for rendering. I monitored CPU and GPU usage, but achieving 4.4Ghz without stability problems is challenging. I didn’t experiment with CPU or SOC voltage settings—just used baseline values to begin with.